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About 300 feet south of this
monument, on the banks of the Alambique Creek, stood San
Mateo County's first sawmill, built by Charles Brown in
1847. About the same time, Dennis Martin was building
a second mill, also run by waterpower, on San Francisquito
Creek. These mills were similar to the famous Sutter's
Mill at Coloma, site of James Marshall's 1848 gold discovery.
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